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Author: Todd Snelgrove

I've been having a lot of fun these past fifty-odd years. I've busked and bicycled through more places I can count, taught music and caught dengue fever, managed a band that toured all over North America and worked with Canada's National Orchestra for two decades. I've traveled countless miles to see a thousand concerts, played hundreds of gigs, won in Vegas and lost in Estonia, worked as a concert promoter, university instructor, janitor, and entertainment writer, seen the Grateful Dead and hiked the Dogon Valley, ran the stairs of the CN Tower and pedalled across Scandinavia once and Newfoundland twice. I've visited the graves of Alexander the Great and the great Robert Johnson, drunk excessively with some of the best and worst people you can imagine, and I've slept in some very, very weird places. Several years ago I started writing some of it down, and much of it is collected here for your perusal.
May 18, 2023 Blondie / John Mayall / National Arts Centre Orchestra / Procol Harum / The Band Perry / Ticket Stories

071014 Blondie/Procol Harum with the National Arts Centre Orchestra/John Mayall/The Band Perry, Ottawa, ON

It doesn’t matter how you cut it, July 10th, 2014 was a pretty amazing night at the Ottawa Bluesfest…

May 17, 2023 Ndidi Onukwulu / Ticket Stories

071207 Ndidi Onukwulu, Ottawa, ON

As many of my friends are quite aware, I have a curious and rather unprecedented hate-on for Blue Rodeo…

May 12, 2023 Broken Social Scene / Calexico / Great Big Sea / James Cohen / MALAJUBE / Seu Jorge / Ticket Stories / Tony D

070706 Great Big Sea/Calexico/Seu Jorge/Tony D/Broken Social Scene/MALAJUBE/James Cohen, Ottawa, ON

July 7th was the opening day of the 2006 edition of the Ottawa Bluesfest.  I was onsite early, I stayed late, and I saw just about every act on offer in between…

May 11, 2023 Bruce Cockburn / The Roots / Ticket Stories

062015 Bruce Cockburn/The Roots, Ottawa, ON

I gotta say, the 2015 edition of the Ottawa jazz festival was pretty stacked…

May 10, 2023 Joe Lovano / John Scofield / Sarah McLachlan / Ticket Stories

062516 John Scofield and Joe Lovano/Sarah McLachlan, Ottawa, ON

This may have been my only time seeing Sarah McLachlan…

May 9, 2023 Phish / Ticket Stories

070612 Phish, Saratoga Springs, NY

July 6th, 2012 was day one of a three-night Phish run at one of my favourite venues…

May 7, 2023 Jenny Lewis / Ryan Adams / Ticket Stories

050715 Ryan Adams/Jenny Lewis, Miami, FL

Adams had the stage set to mimic an 80’s arcade, with two or three video games, a pinball machine and a soda dispenser scattered about…

May 6, 2023 Be In The Band Showcase / Cheap Trick / George Porter Jr. / The Funky Meters / Ticket Stories

071711 Cheap Trick/The Funky Meters/Be In The Band Showcase, Ottawa, ON

July 17th, 2011 was a big day at the Ottawa Bluesfest…

May 4, 2023 Mike Gordon / Phil Lesh / Ticket Stories

080113 Phil Lesh & The Terrapin All Stars, San Rafael, CA

When was the last time you went to a show where people were openly crying their eyes out…

May 3, 2023 Bruce Springsteen / John Fogerty / Rickie Lee Jones / Ticket Stories

050314 Bruce Springsteen, New Orleans, LA

Though the sit-ins were great – especially Fogerty – Springsteen doesn’t actual require any help…

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